Happy Day!! Eat cake!/ Snow adventure

Here are a few more layouts I've put together with the August Hip Kit. 

This one here is of our youngest daughters 1st Birthday. We had all been sick, including her, so we didnt do anything big, we invited family over and hung out, laid back at the house. She looked at the cupcake forever before she finally smashed into it and once she did it was too cute! She smashed into my sisters face too and got it up her own nose.lol

I actually made this layout in the car. I have a problem hu? Went on a weekend trip and couldn't go without my scrapping!

Now this one was made with my August kit but I also did it for a sketch challenge from the Victoria Marie FB Group. This sketch definitely gave me the chance to use a bunch of my winter pics from a day we played in the snow,all in one layout.

Its a bit plain, but I love the way it showed all these pics from this fun day! No school or work and all of us playing together!!

Now you can head over to facebook and search for Victoria Marie FB Group and join in on the fun there too!! They have different challenges and great company too!!

August Hip Kit!!

So totally late on this!!! I got this beautiful thing at the begging of the month but have been working threw my July kit still and playing with some other things so I'm just getting to it!

But come on, looking at this you have to know how hard it was for me not to mess with it!! All of that Pink Fresh Studio!! Die cut pack from Crate Papers new Wonder line, Dear Lizzy Fine and Dandy thicker shapes!! And all the lovely GOLD!!! WOW!!

Here is my 1st layout made with this kit. My pretty little girl playing in her little kiddy pool last summer with the hose. She had so much fun, the other kids would try and get in with her and she would spray them!! So funny!! She would just giggle so hard.

I used a cut file from the Silhouette store and filled the little holes, that looked like water droplets to me, with some of the pretty papers. I did a little bit of layering behind the picture but not a bunch because I like the background and didn't want to pull a ton from it. I added some frames by Pink Paislee from my May Hip kit. I played with a piece of the beautiful Dear Lizzy masking tape tags. I added that pretty little yellow heart flair and some little bits of light pink thread around the layout like I've seen Missy Whidden do all the time, I love it!

Well off to scrap some more now that the little ones are down!

Scrappin my stash

Hey all, How have you been??

Weve been busy around here, still trying to get back in the swing of things with school starting back, but I think we have it down now with week 2 over. They're all really enjoying being at school, I think that our youngest is the one liking it the least! She misses her brothers and sister during the day. But Shes getting use to it too.

Well I've been diving into my scrappy stash lately, trying to use some of it up since I've been hoarding some of it,lol. Yeah I know we all do it!

I was on facebook a while back and saw a post by Maggie in the Pink Camera Community, putting up some challenges. I already posted one of the layouts I did for one of the challenges here last week and for some reason I never posted the other ones I made.

This one was add some stitching. And I did make sure I did that. I've been on a bit of a kick with sewing and circles, so why not combine the 2? Lol Well I used a We R Memory Keepers Archived collection for this one. I used some American crafts white cardstock, LittleB washi, Heidi Swapp color shine and some American crafts thickers.

 Its all pretty simple, but I loved the picture of my Hubby and son playing there game together. They both love this game, I walked in from putting our youngest down and they were playing so I snapped a quick picture. They will sit and play this game forever!! But its there version of my scrapping I guess lol

Now this one was for the Back Then challenge. Now I have to say, this one didn't turn out how I wanted it to really. I love this picture of me and my sister back in the day, but I don't like how it seems all pink. You cant see any of the light teal color really. In person you can see it better, hummm.  But I used another We R Memory Keepers line here, I used a collection called Love Notes, some Paper Studios vellum,  Dear Lizzi washi tape, American Crafts thickers, bits and pieces from the Maggie Holmes open book collection and a few other things. 

I mean I like how it has all the focus on the picture but I wish the teal showed more.... 

Im slowly working threw my stash because I want to order some new goodies soooooo bad!! Think I might have to break down and do it this week, there are just to many beautiful collections that have come out recently!!!

Killing my July Hip Kit

Good morning all! Its Thursday, the weekends almost here!!

Ok so its almost the end of August and I'm just now killing my July Hip Kit! lol I guess I didn't get as much scrapping done this summer with all the running around and fun! :)

These 3 layouts were the last of my July kit, I mean I have some scraps but not enough to make a page. And I have a little bit of embellishments and will be using them as soon as I can!

I took this picture with in the 1st week of being in our new place. Beautiful sunshine coming threw the windows, a great cup of coffee and a yummy cinnamon roll, yep a good morning!

I used Octobers afternoon, backyard lights for my background, some Fancy Pants, Just beachy for my triangles, tabs and pretty much the rest is from Elles studio line Lets eat. 

I love my coffee so I wanted to document it :) and you'll probably see more pictures of coffee down the road, fall/winters coming and Starbucks will have yummy flavors out!!

I love this picture. My 2 daughters were just cuddled up in bed watching tv on the ipad, no clue anyone was around and my hubby snapped this picture of them, I swiped it from him :D Thank you hunny!

I didnt want to do to much around this picture, I just wanted them to be the center of attention. So I layered papers behind them, added a doilie from my stash, a few pieces from the crate paper poolside chipboard sheet we got. In the frame it juts says, Oh happy day! and then a little tag under it saying relax. Thats just how I felt about this picture. 

I know they wont be like this forever, they'll start to fuss and fight, and it has started a bit already, but I love that for right now they still cuddle with each other and love spending time with each other

Well I finished this layout with little pieces put on each corner and then adding the little enamel triangles by Chickaniddy crafts.

And heres the last one! On my background I used a cut out from my silhouette and sprayed it with some of my tattered angels chalkboard glimmer mist, I like the way it turned out. I layered a few papers and added some sewing, added some great chipboard pieces again from Crate paper poolsides collection, that included my title, Hot Hot Sunshine! I love this thought, they had so much fun at this splash park!

Now I know none of these layouts are really intricate or anything but I love how they turned out. These papers were fantastic to work with and the embellishments were so fun!! If you haven't checked out Hip kit club yet you need to head over and check out there new kit for September!! Its soooooooo pretty!!

Now off to try and finish my August kit before my September kit get here!! Lets see if that happens!!

Up on the Birds of a feather blog today with the technique Tuesday!

Good Morning all!! Hope the beginning of your week is treating you good!

Well I'm here today with a little technique playing with distress inks.  Now I didn't come up with this by any means, I actually saw Adele Toomey or Inkie Quill but I thought it was a great way to play with distress inks, a kind of mixed media I guess.

I'm not huge into mixed media, I like it, but I think I'm more scared of it than anything lol. I'm kinda intimidated of it, but I'm trying to change that.

So this is what I started with:

I grabbed 3 of my favorite distress inks at the moment, a card and some little sponges. I started with one color and eventually blended them all three together.

When I'm happy with the way it looks I grab a water bottle I keep in my scrap room and get some on the tips of my fingers and flick and splash it over the ink. You can do as much or as little as you'd like.

I let this set for a minute or so and then I take a paper towel and lay it over the top of the card, press down and then pull it off.

It looks like this after. It pulls the ink out and I love the way it looks. To me it looks like it gives it texture but when you run your hand over it there's no difference. Now if your not happy with it, you want more? Just do it again. I play with it till I'm happy.

So here is my card. I used a few things from the kit and a few things from my stash. I was happy with the way this card turned out. I also made this card for Jen T.s card sketch challenge. You can click there or you can find it in the forums and play along if you'd like. There are other challenges going on there too!! There all fun to play along with, so hope to see you over there in the forums and hope you enjoyed my card and the technique I shared.

Few layouts with my July Hip Kit!!

Here again tonight with a few more layouts I made with my July Hip Hit. 

I had so much fun making this layout! This is my older daughter and my sister just goofing around, we do that a lot! lol But I love there faces! So funny and cute! 

The papers are always fun to play with and always match up with the previous kits I've gotten and it looks like there going to keep matching!!

I pulled pieces from a few of my past kits, my may and june kits, I only have small pieces left from them all but I keep them together so that I can use them all together. I guess I might be weird in that way but I'm ok with that.

This second pic is a collage pic of a fun day at the park, now we do this a lot too so I usually have a bunch of them!! lol But the kiddos are so fun to take pictures of when there having so much fun!

Clique Kits prize pack Late posting!! and a layout from an online challenge!

Wow, So I've had this awesome kit I won from a Clique Kits blog hop/Pep rally and I never posted it!!! I cant believe I forgot! I really cant see how I did!! I mean look at the beautifulness!!

I still haven't even broke into it other than to take this picture! Lol, but now that school has started and things are settling down and were all getting back into a groove, I'm finally getting to scrapbook more! So I'm planning on breaking into this in the next few days.

Now this layout is one that I did for a challenge over at the Pink Camera Community on facebook. Maggie Mylow is the one who posted the challenges and they were so much fun. I got in late on them, so I only ended up finishing 5 out of the 7, but they were all fun!! 

You can find the group on facebook by searching for Pink Camera Community and then Maggie also has a youtube channel where you can watch her create beautiful things!! 

This was the 1st challenge in the PCC, it was to use project life cards, you got em use em!! So i used my We R Memory Keepers, Inked Rose set that I have, the background is a We R Memory Keepers paper from the love notes collection and then a sheet of American Crafts white cardstock. I got the inspiration for this layout from a layout Susie Fishburne made, really I pretty much scraplifted it! 

She is amazing and if you dont know who she is you need to go check her out. Her blog is so good to read and shes also got a group on facebook called Faith Hope Washi. Just search for it and you'll find it. It is a great community of scrappy women that share there scrappy stuff and have some really great conversations. 

Go check out the sites on Facebook and Susies blog!! I hope you enjoyed my layout, join my circle so that when I post you'll get an update and wont miss anything!! Hope to be sharing some layout made with that beautiful Clique Kit it got, so stay tuned!!